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Annie K.
Member since Apr-02-04

Annie Kappel
This profile needs an update badly, but I don't have the time... :)
My YouTube channel, featuring pronunciations of non-English chess player names: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
I'm 45 y/o, of Transylvanian origin, living in Israel since childhood. I speak English (no, really), Hungarian (great language!), and Hebrew (if I must, which is often, for some reason).
Afflicted with an uncontrollable sense of humor and other highly controversial characteristics.
I learned chess as a child, but had no further opportunities to practice the game. Returned to it seriously around 2004, and have been hanging out here since.
Note: if I am not home (i.e., here), you can probably find me at the Domdaniel chessforum, the SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum, the visayanbraindoctor chessforum, or the chessgames.com chessforum! :)
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<My City of Moscow skits:>
<<<<<<>>>>> Kramnik's Party -> City of Moscow (kibitz #752)
<<<<<<>>>>> Sochi 2008: An F-Files Production -> City of Moscow (kibitz #774)
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<Game Collection: My GotD Puns>
<My favorites:>
All Your Baze Are Belong To Us - L Baze vs T Palmer, 2004 - GotD Mar-21-10
Y Yu No Claim Repetition? - Yu Yangyi vs M R Venkatesh, 2012 - GotD Jun-30-12
He Who Has E Tate is Lost - E Tate vs Y Shulman, 2001 - GotD Sep-22-16
How Many Roads Must Aman Walk Down? - S Shankland vs A Hambleton, 2014 - GotD Dec-23-16 (besides the obvious reason for the pun - a long King walk - note also the terms 'shank' and 'amble' embedded in the player names)
So me the Wei - W So vs Wei Yi, 2013 - GotD Jan-29-17
This Won't Borya Ider - B Ider vs Wei Yi, 2014 - GotD Apr-01-17 (follow-up to previous day's GotD, 'This Won't Borya')
Injun vs Engin' - Anand vs REBEL, 1997 - GotD Jan-06-2018
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<My other (linkable) site contributions:>
* The Player Names Pronunciation Project: http://www.chessgames.com/audio (or look for names with a loudspeaker icon in the Player Directory)
* Created on my suggestion: Biographer Bistro
* The first (now retired) Carlsen Dancing Rook: https://web.archive.org/web/2013040...
* The Caruana Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
* The Hou Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
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<<<<<<< MAJOR CHESS SITES <<>>>>>>>>>
<< Correspondence chess <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< ChessWorld -> http://www.chessworld.net
ChessWorld is my new main chess playing base. It's a rather restrictive site for non-paying members, but one of the best sites for paying members. The full features include excellent interface options and first class study and analysis resources. Nice community, likeable admin. Paid membership recommended.
< Update: while I will leave the original entry for ChessWorld as-is, I have by now been a member of the site for 2 years, and am now an admin there. I still think the site is one of the best, and the <other> admins are nice. :p >
My ChessWorld profile: http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessc...
< Queen Alice -> http://www.queenalice.com
Queen Alice is a charming site - well behaved players, decent admin, site design visually very pleasant. It is also completely free. Unfortunately, it lacks team play, the interface and resources are relatively simple, and it can be frustratingly slow (loading times). Nevertheless warmly recommended.
My QueenAlice profile: http://www.queenalice.com/player.ph...
< GameKnot -> http://gameknot.com
GameKnot is technically an excellent site, however I would not recommend it to the serious player who is looking for a site to settle in, due to an anti$ocial admin with ju$t one $ingle intere$t in hi$ $ite... oop$, $orry about the typo$.
My GameKnot profile: http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?annie-....
<< Other chess sites <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< FICS - the Free Internet Chess Server -> http://www.freechess.org
FICS is a great site to play chess at various faster time controls. There are a few difficulties getting started with it - first, it can be hard to find an email they will accept for registration; and second, there's a lot of site code to learn. But it's worth the hassle. :)
< ChessCube -> http://www.chesscube.com
ChessCube is quite good for fast time control games - provided you have a strong computer with broadband, as the site is entirely Flash based, which means it takes considerable computer resources to load. The site is nominally free, but heavily commercialized with all sorts of frills that can be purchased on it.
< Emrald Chess Tactics Server -> http://chess.emrald.net
Emrald is not a playing site - it is an invaluable tactical training asset. The only problem with it is also the difficulty of finding an "acceptable" email address to register with; but once past that hurdle, the site deserves nothing but praise.
It's a completely free site. You can play (practice) there as a guest, but they recommend registering, so that their program can keep track of your progress, in order to assign you puzzles best suited to your current level. I strongly second that recommendation. Register and always play logged in! It will make a huge difference in the site's ability to help you improve. An issue that scares some people off Emrald is that your progress is tracked via a "rating system", and because of the high importance they assign to speed, if you are not used to finding tactics fast, your rating will be very low at first - and many people are simply embarrassed to play logged in for that reason. Don't let it bother you! If you let embarrassment hold you back from letting the site help you improve to the best of its ability, you are only shooting yourself in the foot, and nobody else really cares that much anyway. ;p
A few of the people I've recommended Emrald to, had dropped it after a brief trial with remarks along the lines of "Oh, it's a blitz training site. I don't play blitz, so I don't like their obsession with speed." That reaction is absolutely wrong - and it's also one that many people who try the site out for only a short time are likely to have, if only because players who are used to being rated, say, 2000 and above, at corr. chess sites, are going to be annoyed and put on the defensive about finding themselves rated as low as 1200-1300 at Emrald, and will wish to dismiss the "insulting" site.
Yes, the Emrald rating system is heavily influenced by speed. But thinking that the site's purpose is blitz training is a complete misunderstanding of the lesson taught. The real purpose of Emrald practice is not to improve your blitz skills, but to train you to recognize dozens of tactical themes and opportunities AT A GLANCE - which will not only save you time in games of any time control, but is often the only way you will catch them AT ALL. Those brilliant tactical shots that can be seen in anyone's collection of "most memorable games", are often moves that will either occur to you as soon as you glance at the position, or you will miss them altogether. That's what Emrald really teaches - tactical chess intuition.
<Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position. --- <Viswanathan Anand>>
<Personally, I am of the view that if a strong master does not see such a threat at once he will not notice it, even if he analyses the position for twenty or thirty minutes. --- <Tigran Petrosian >>
<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>
^ TL;DR.

Any other questions, feel free to ask. I might even answer. ;p

>> Click here to see Annie K.'s game collections.

   Current net-worth: 990 chessbucks
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   Annie K. has kibitzed 8212 times to chessgames [more...]

   Sep-15-20 S Mariotti vs A Geller, 1990

Annie K.: The Black player in this game has been corrected from Efim to Alexander Geller. Thanks. :)

   Sep-14-20 chessgames.com chessforum

Annie K.: <MissS> ah, yes, the key term "I challenged her" - that pretty much describes the previous post too, which was a blown out of all proportion tirade about the severity of the Player of the Day (not the entire homepage as claimed, which I check on almost every midnight, ...

   Sep-12-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)

Annie K.: Note: if you can't see the games, please set your game viewer to pgn4web (in the box under the game score) - but remember to set it back to our default viewer Olga in the end, as it is about to be upgraded soon, and will be the best of our viewers. :)

   Sep-04-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum

Annie K.: The logs have been checked, and the top places are cleared. Congratulations to winner <moronovich>, the other 5 qualifiers, and the rest of the top 10! :) We have opened the Fall Leg, so if anything turns up, betting can start immediately, but we have no official schedule for

   Aug-01-20 Biographer Bistro

Annie K.: <Tab> The WCC pages are tied in with some special functions, and changing them can cause far-ranging problems at this time (remember when merely changing the WCC page titles caused stats to disappear from the pages of participating players?), so let's take this up again after

   Jul-29-20 Ding Liren vs Leko, 2020

Annie K.: Identical to K Stupak vs E Shtembuliak, 2020 .

   Jul-24-20 Annie K. chessforum

Annie K.: A fun conversation from 2016... :) <Daniel:> I’ve come to learn a lot about what sports broadcasting must be like. Actually I learned about it long before CG when I worked at a newspaper. If there is a sporting event you MUST be excited about it, from a business ...

   Jul-22-20 Biel (2020)

Annie K.: It gets worse - the chess24 intro says "In case of a tie for first place chess960 rapid games will be played", but in fact the official site specifies that the chess960 tiebreaks in question are the ACCENTUS 960 games - which have already been played on the 18th, the event's first ...

   Jul-21-20 Csom vs A Yusupov, 1982

Annie K.: The only requirement for this excellent pun is to pronounce Csom correctly. Which means, as "Chom". :)

   Jul-17-20 K Pedersen vs G F Kane, 1972

Annie K.: <jith> thank you for the always helpful directions. :) So all 12 Pedersen games we have in Chess Olympiad Final-A (1972) games are about to be reassigned from Eigil to Karl.

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Procrastinators' Club (planned)

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Oct-05-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: 'I didn't know we were fighting Spispopyd agents,' Gudga remarked as soon as he felt Ilya had led them safely out of earshot. 'Me neither,' Ilya replied, 'are we?' 'Don't ask me. You're the one who's supposed to be an expert about them.' 'An expert on Spispopydians? Me?' Gudga gave his brother a puzzled look. 'You, yes. You've been obsessed with them since we were kids. You watched every zurm with them in. You always wanted someone to play them in every game, even the ones where they wouldn't fit. You broke into their headquarters three and a half years ago and said you discovered their evil secret.' '<What?>' Gudga grabbed his shoulder and nailed him with his eyes. 'Yes. It <is> you in there, isn't it? Ilya?' 'I have no idea what you're talking about... oh, wait... holy bleeping bleepity <bleep>!' Ilya had, in fact, broken into the headquarters of Spispopyd Soulholdings plc some three and a half years previously and discovered their evil secret. What he'd never confessed was that he'd subsequently had to pay for a senselessly expensive mind wipe to blank all his Spispopyd-related memories so the nightmares would stop. He now did so; it was better than having Gudga think he was an impostor. 'You did what!?' 'I knowwww... did I ever tell you or anybody else that evil secret?' 'I don't think so. It must have been pretty evil, mind you, if they keep it a secret - considering some of the things they're open about. Where're we headed, anyhow?' 'The kitchen.' 'What, why? You reckon we're going to find mini-bots or intruders in the kitchen?' 'Not really, no. But we might find chocolate in the kitchen.' 'At a time like this, you're looking for <chocolate>? If you get us in more trouble I have half a mind to say I was in coldsleep and it's entirely your fault we didn't activate their clones...' Ilya gave his brother a Look. 'Look, we could go looking for possibly dangerous mini-bots that might or might not have been disabled by those emps, or we could go looking for Spispopyd agents, or we could go looking for chocolate. You choose.' Gudga relaxed. 'So it <is> you in there.'

Oct-09-14		Annie K.: <AI> aww, you sure you want to be left out of this? ;s --- '... well, ok, when you put it this way, chocolate sounds like a definite winner. To the kitchen, then!' Meanwhile, back at the AI hub, Dad smiled at Mom. 'Works every time!' he remarked. 'Well, by the time we're out of chocolate, they'll never remember to ask just which clones we are. Too bad about the regulars, eh?'

Oct-09-14		Annie K.: <VBD> btw, here's the rest of the Zelazny library: http://85.17.122.144/bookbyauthor.p.... I particularly enjoyed this little piece, http://85.17.122.144/bookreader.php..., for being fun, and sortof relevant to what we are doing here. ;)

Oct-13-14		OhioChessFan: User: cat User: kat User: kitty User: kitten User: coolcat User: cool cat User: krazykat User: tomcat User: hepcat User: Catwalk User: catman User: catatonic User: polecat User: FritzTheCat User: catfood User: KittyCat User: Kittie User: topcat User: wildcat User: PussyCat

Oct-14-14		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.> Thank you for the links. Sooner or later I will get to read them if it's not too hectic hereabouts. I have been reading some alarming news in the internet on Ebola lately. It seems that once it infects a person, it carries the same kill rate as small pox and Yersinia pestis in the past. Modern Medicine knows enough to take keep infected people out of their communities quickly and keep them under quarantine. Doesn't sound humane but it will be worse if the disease spreads unchecked. Insight into the microbial nature of infectious diseases beginning in the 1800s IMO also marks the beginning of modern Medicine. Viral infections are particularly hard to manage for the simple reason that they can't be cured by an antibiotic. One has to manage symptoms and complications (e.g. if an Ebola patient starts bleeding one might give blood transfusions) and and treat secondary bacterial infections (if bacterial pneumonia occurs, one may give antibiotics and bronchodilators), and that's about it. Then wait for the patient's immune system to control and possibly beat the virus.

Oct-18-14		Annie K.: <Ohio> thanks. ;) <VBD> Ebola does not sound like fun. :( BTW, that site is an entire library, with loads of great books available: here's a link to page A of authors, click on any other letter in the list across the top to access the rest. http://85.17.122.144/author.php?let...

Oct-18-14		Thanh Phan: <Ebola does not sound like fun.> Nina Pham, one we still remain in contact with, recently expressed her remorse about actually traveling because of her recent activities regarding her possible infection status, her harbor hopes to not have infected any passengers due to her being 'informed' to be allowed to travel by the cdc as her actual contact with the cdc stated her ability to, noting her being not a possible of infection, and allowing her to visit family via commercial transportation, She as well as the others who were in contact with an infected paitent contacted the cdc for abilities regarding travel, it was granted despite her knowingly being around an infected Ebola active carrier

Oct-19-14		Annie K.: <Thanh> I just read up on Ebola a bit, and it seems it's only contagious via direct contact with bodily fluids, so other than medical personnel, who do get exposed to such while treating a patient, a casual contact could only be infected if the carrier was actually exhibiting symptoms, such as sneezing. I hope your friend isn't infected to start with, but at least if she isn't feeling sick (sneezing/vomiting), she is most likely not contagious.

Oct-20-14		Annie K.: Blitz is fun chapter MMDCCLXVIII (or so): [Site "http://lichess.org/M3XxUYT0"] [Date "2014.10.20"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "ardool"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1670"] [BlackElo "1710"] [TimeControl "420+0"] [ECO "C02"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Nge7 7. Bd3 Bd7 8. Bc2 Rc8 9. O-O Ng6 10. Bxg6 hxg6 11. h3 Be7 12. b4 cxd4 13. cxd4 a6 14. Nc3 Na7 15. Na4 Bxa4 16. Qxa4+ Qb5 17. Qd1 Rc4 18. Bg5 Nc6 19. Rc1 Bxg5 20. Nxg5 Nxd4 21. Qxd4 Rxd4 22. Rc8+ Kd7 23. Rxh8 f6 24. exf6 gxf6 25. Rh7+ Ke8 26. Nxe6 Rd3 27. Nc7+ Kd8 28. Nxb5 axb5 29. Rxb7 Rxa3 30. Rxb5 d4 31. Rd5+ (Black forfeits on time) 1-0 read: staller. Amusingly, the lichess postmortem engine sez I made 3 inaccuracies and 2 mistakes, but no blunders. :)

Oct-20-14		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> Miss Pham during her continual hospital stay has noted as you, transfer of bodily fluids could and might influence if they contact that disease, even breath with coughing could result in the transmission, <Symptoms of Ebola include a fever, a headache, diarrhea, vomiting, muscle and joint aches and in some cases bleeding. These appear two to 21 days after exposure to the disease, the CDC said. Even if a person is infected, the virus can only be passed on once symptoms appear. It is transmitted through direct contact with the affected person's bodily fluids. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art... >

Oct-20-14		Thanh Phan: In the critical care unit she appears in, the nurses only ever appear in pairs or teams, so there are one watching the other nurse, every single moment, to make sure they have not acted in a manner other than the guidelines set for them, her time appears trying in both body and mind, still fear for her yet know she is in one of the best hospitals able to deal with her situation, Even with the best of everything it seems the Ebola Virus takes so much from their being, it is probably one of the most draining things you can encounter and live through, from what we have witnessed from our encounters online with Nina Pham, the only way any are able to encounter her at this time, for our safety

Oct-24-14		visayanbraindoctor: <Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> Miss Pham during her continual hospital stay has noted as you, transfer of bodily fluids could and might influence if they contact that disease, even breath with coughing could result in the transmission,> This is alarming. Yersinia pestis or bubonic plague has an airborne form, pneumonic plague, which may have been the basis for its rapid spread once it took hold of an urban population. Epidemics propagated through airborne means (pneumonic plague and the 1918 influenza pandemic) are particularly dangerous. I do expect that effective vaccines would be developed against Ebola soon. <Symptoms of Ebola include a fever, a headache, diarrhea, vomiting, muscle and joint aches and in some cases bleeding. These appear two to 21 days after exposure to the disease, the CDC said.> Sounds like Dengue, which probably is the number one child killer in my locality among viral diseases, except that Ebola carries a higher kill rate. I recall that my sister, who was a teenager then, once developed a really bad fever. I did a tourniquet test and she apparently tested positive. I insisted she get admitted to a hospital, where it was confirmed she had Dengue. She got well after a week. Most viral infections are self limiting. I have seen children getting killed by Dengue though. In the worst of cases they begin to bleed, vomiting blood and getting brain hemorrhages. I haven't seen anyone getting killed by Ebola but it could be similar.

Oct-25-14		Thanh Phan: <visayanraindoctor> Be assured that they are taking steps to attempt to find the actual abilities of just how easy or hard it is for others to become infected by being around someone, The personal protective equipment or PPE they wear when helping others recover are for their assurance that it will not spread, it will not go beyond them,

Oct-25-14		Annie K.: <VBD> very pretty new avatar! :) <Thanh> I think I saw you say somewhere that your friend is in the clear - glad to hear that.

Oct-25-14		Thanh Phan: Great thanks are offered toward your return to the internet, some here appeared worried yet you still appear, Nina Pham went through the entire regime until she was free of the Ebola virus, it really took much out of her, She wishes to take several days before returning to work, and yet the moment she is released she had and took a chance to greet the President of the United States, Thankfully the video available online has not been released, of her time being sick, that is something everyone I heard are going through when enduring the Ebola virus, I stayed up late so I personally could hear and understand her and her family concerns, that I was able to translate for others was a bonus, not a reason

Oct-27-14		Alien Math: <Annie K.> her recent admission into a hospital means she might still be getting or adjust to her new surroundings, her are being take care of rest assure, Your comment and request on the chessgames.com page are both noted and put first on our "wish to inform" icon to let her know of other people expressions, They explain it might take a few days, to a few weeks before they are willing to inform her about outside comments, conflicts or thoughts, depend on what they think might be helpful for her continual improvement, First they wish to stable her, after that they are willing to look forward to her ability to respond or reply to outside influences, and after that, some that might have brought her to this stage of personal conflict

Oct-28-14		Annie K.: <Hanh> thanks, let me know how she is doing when you have time. :)

Oct-29-14		visayanbraindoctor: <Thanh Phan> What does your friend say about the origins of Ebola? I know that there is a hypothesis that AIDS came from monkeys in Africa. Old world monkeys bear close similarities to humans in their anatomy and physiology, and some diseases can criss-cross between these groups. That's why the rhesus monkey is a favorite laboratory subject in the study of human diseases. Great apes are even more similar to humans, but I guess they are too expensive and inconvenient to be used as a common lab subject. I admit I would feel troubled to see a chimpanzee being infected with a lethal virus in a lab though. They are almost like us humans. I have posted a link to a chimpanzee skull base in this forum; and truth is that I can't distinguish it from a human skull base. Chimp and human skull bases are the same. I have read that our blood is almost the same too, with the same antigen systems (ABO, MN, Rh, etc).

Oct-30-14		Alien Math: our bill payments result with internet cost withdraw from budget until afford equals bills, when internet end for the month maybe one to 3 months before online next

Nov-02-14		Annie K.: I think it's been a while since I last showed sufficient insanity levels, so here goes. ;) [Site "http://lichess.org/0aOIxwxu"] [Date "2014.11.02"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1770"] [BlackElo "1556"] [Variant "Chess960"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [FEN "brnnqkrb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRNNQKRB w KQkq - 0 1"] click for larger view 1. e4 b5 2. g3 g5 3. Nc3 Nd6 4. Nd5 Ne6 5. Nb3 c6 6. Nc3 g4 7. d3 O-O 8. Qe3 Rb6 9. O-O-O Bb7 10. h3 Qc8 11. hxg4 c5 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. exd5 Nd4 14. Qg5+ Bg7 15. Nxd4 cxd4 16. b3 Kh8 17. Be4 Nxe4 18. dxe4 Bh6 19. Bxd4+ 1-0 click for larger view

Nov-25-14		Alien Math: <Where're we headed, anyhow?' 'The kitchen.' 'What, why? You reckon we're going to find mini-bots or intruders in the kitchen?' 'Not really, no. But we might find chocolate in the kitchen.'> Keep that one

Nov-26-14		Alien Math: Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischeti... Germany's longest word - Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübe- rtragungsgesetz - a 63-letter long title of a law regulating the testing of beef, has officially ceased to exist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor... In theory, a German word can be infinitely long. Unlike in English, an extra concept can simply be added to the existing word indefinitely. Such extended words are sometimes known as Bandwurmwörter - "tapeworm words". In an essay on the Germany language, Mark Twain observed: "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective."

Nov-26-14		Annie K.: Heh, thanks. :) Hungarian works much like that too.

Nov-29-14		Thanh Phan: Found a fun to read type, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/...

Nov-29-14		Annie K.: Thanks <Thanh>. Interesting site, too. :)

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